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AGENDA

• About Perficient

• Why Consider Cloud for Analytics?

• What is Cross-Functional Analysis?

• Overview of Oracle Cloud Analytics

• Prebuilt HR Analytics on Oracle BICS Platform

• Q&A

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OUR SPEAKER

Shiv Bharti is the practice director of Perficient’s national Oracle

business intelligence practice. Shiv has solid experience building

and deploying Oracle Business Intelligence products. He has

successfully led the implementation of more than 75 Oracle

Business Intelligence and custom data warehouse projects.

Shiv has worked in multiple industries and with clients including

Fortune 500 companies. He has expertise leading large global

teams, as well as in-depth knowledge across multiple verticals and

technologies. Prior to 2008, Shiv was a member of the Oracle and

Siebel Core Engineering Teams and responsible for the design and

development of numerous business intelligence applications.

linkedin.com/in/shivbharti/

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PERFICIENT PROFILEFounded in 1997

Public, NASDAQ: PRFT

2014 revenue $456.7 million

Major market locations:

Allentown, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Boston, Charlotte,

Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Denver,

Detroit, Fairfax, Houston, Indianapolis, Lafayette,

Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York City, Northern

California, Oxford (UK), Southern California,

St. Louis, Toronto

Global delivery centers in China and India

>2,600 colleagues

Dedicated solution practices

~90% repeat business rate

Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors

Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards

Platinum Partner w/1,800+ Oracle Implementations

Enterprise Information Management

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

E-Business Suite

Oracle Technology, Middleware/SOA

Customer Experience / CRM

Oracle Certified Education Partner

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PERFICIENT’S ORACLE BI PRACTICE• Oracle Platinum Partner with multiple specializations

• 15+ year relationship of loyalty and trust

• Successfully delivered over 400 Oracle BI projects

• 50+ U.S based Consultants and 50+ Offshore consultants dedicated

to delivering Oracle BI Solution

• 60% of consultants come from Oracle Engineering

• Multiple delivery models

• Deep technical expertise on

• Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS), Oracle BI Apps, OBIEE,

Custom Data Warehousing, Oracle Golden Gate, Mobility

• Perficient runs its business on Oracle BI

• Oracle Certified Education Training Partner

• Work closely with Oracle product management to provide feedback

for functional enhancements

• Strong partnerships with field sales and marketing organizations

• Long-standing involvement with Oracle OpenWorld

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CLOUD INNOVATORS

Cloud Services Practice

Transformative Engagements

• Oracle Sales Cloud

• Marketing Cloud

• Service Cloud

• Planning & Budgeting

• Cloud ERP

• Business Intelligence

• Cloud Strategy Services

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WHY CONSIDER CLOUD

FOR ANALYTICS?

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THREE COMPELLING REASONS

1. Ready for Prime Time – A cloud offering from a vendor like Oracle is

a matured enterprise analytics platform that is ready for prime time.

2. Easy Self Service Capabilities – Lines of business view Cloud BI

solutions as enablers.

3. Lower Cost – Easy subscription based pricing for a modern

enterprise analytics platform.

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CLOUD BI IS ALREADY ENTERING YOUR ORGANIZATION

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CLOUD BI IS ALREADY ENTERING YOUR ORGANIZATION

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SERVE THE LINES OF BUSINESS

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ORACLE BI CLOUD

SERVICES (BICS)

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PROVEN BI PLATFORM WITH A CLEAR STRATEGEY

Built with enterprise-class software,proven on-premises with thousands of customers globally

Leverage existing skills

Business driven self-service

Simple administration and fast provisioning

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BI CLOUD SERVICE LAUNCH CAPABILITIES SUMMARY

• OBIEE answers &

dashboards

• Mobile HD

• Integrated database service

• Thin client data loader

• Thin client modeling tool

• Thin client service admin

console

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MULTIPLE DATA LOADING OPTIONS

• BICS Data Loader: Simple file upload

• BICS REST API*: Recommended for ETL

integration

• SQL Developer: Interactive data loading and

administration

• DBCS REST API: Define your own custom API

• PL/SQL Data Import: Generic Web Services

data import

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WHAT IS CROSS-

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS?

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CASE STUDY: HR ANALYTICS

Trending reports from multiple HR applications (PeopleSoft and Taleo)

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CASE STUDY: HR ANALYTICS

This report correlates key workforce metrics with financial metrics and

analyzes the overall HR effectiveness using industry-standard metrics

such as revenue per employee, return on human capital.

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CASE STUDY: REVENUE FORECAST REPORT

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DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

• Use staging tables to consolidate

data from multiple applications (on-

premises/public cloud)

• Leverage common dimensions for

analysis across applications

• Assign unique data source number

for each distinct application

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PRE-BUILT ANALYTICS ON

ORACLE BICS

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USE CASES

• Fulfill HR analytics need on a modern analytics platform

• Currently using Discoverer, DBI or a custom reporting tool and looking

to upgrade to a modern analytics platform

• Cross-functional analysis between on-premise (PeopleSoft, Oracle

EBS) and cloud applications (Taleo, Workday)

• Seamless analytics between multiple cloud applications (Taleo,

Workday)

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PRE-BUILT HR ANALYTICS ON ORACLE BICS

Key Takeaway:

• Automate data upload process for

any on-premise or cloud- based

source application

Oracle Cloud

Oracle DB

Schema Service

Oracle BI

Cloud Service

Automate Data Management

(ETL) Process

Web based

Metadata Creation

Analytics

Users

Non-Oracle Apps

Oracle/Non-Oracle

Apps

Cloud Applications

Relational

Cubes

Flat Files

Data Sync

Workday

Taleo

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SPEEDS TIME TO VALUE AND LOWERS TCOBuild from Scratchwith Traditional BI Tools

Weeks or Months

Back-end

ETL and

Mapping

DW Design

Define Metrics

& Dashboards

Back-end ETL andMapping

DW Design

Define Metrics& Dashboards

Training/Roll-out

Training/Rollout

Quarters or Years

Source: Patricia Seybold Research, Gartner, Merrill Lynch, Oracle Analysis

Prebuilt business adapters for Oracle, PeopleSoft, Taleo, Workday, and others

Prebuilt DW design, adapts to your EDW

Role-based dashboards and thousands of pre-defined metrics

Easy to use, easy to adapt

• Faster deployment

• Lower TCO

• Assured business value

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QUESTIONS?

Please submit your questions in

the chat box

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Thank You!

For more information, please contact:

Shiv Bharti, Oracle BI Practice Director

shiv.bharti@perficient.com

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